A manor house of two distinct periods: partly visibly half-timbered and of the late seventeenth-century, and partly now encased in stone, yet a timber-framed house of the early sixteenth-century. Abcott owes its earlier build to the Morris family whose seat this was from the 1540s into the seventeenth century. William Morris, who was a tenant of the Crown, was succeeded in 1549 by his son Thomas who was able to buy the property in 1553. William Morris appears to have been responsible for the north-westerly hall range of the house for which dendrochronological dating has suggested felling dates of Spring 1541 to Spring 1546. It would, as Madge Moran has noted, have been one of the few major building projects to have taken place in Shropshire during the reign of Henry VIII. Originally open to the roof, a floor now divides the hall.

The eastern half of the north-range, which presents a broad-gabled, close studded, timber-framed elevation to the east, was probably built for Francis Morris prior to his death in 1644. It is, indeed, a handsome front with numerous mid-rails used in its framing, with bolection-moulded friezes to the mullioned and transomed windows. To the north, the range is distinguished by the deep ashlar chimney breast that is crowned by extraordinary rusticated brick chimneys. These are composed of a pair of rectangular shafts that are united by open zig-zag brickwork – perhaps similar to those at lost Wootton (q.v.). Internally it is also the east-range that gives the greatest decorative interest with the Great Chamber, where the plasterwork is of superlative quality. The ceiling itself is composed of moulded beams with pomegranate trails around the soffits which frame deep relief decoration on the fields of the panels. Here, within strapwork arabesques, are roundels decorated by heraldic animals and with blind oval plaster cabouchons. It is a highly advanced design and one which was probably executed by the same craftsmen who worked at Reaside Manor (q.v.). The chimneypiece is an early classical stone one, flanked by Doric pilasters supporting lozenges which retain their original green marbled paintwork.

Francis Morris died in 1644. Predeceased by his son, he was succeeded by his two surviving daughters. The younger, Beatrice, married Wrottesley Prynce (c. 1652), the younger son of Sir Richard Prynce of Whitehall (q.v.) and carried the house to that family.